Life, The Universe & Hot Dogs, a free monthly series of talks given by the Institute for the Science of Origins at Happy Dog, covers everything from the origin of life, the universe and a whole bunch of other cool stuff.

The ISO is a collaborative team of faculty members and researchers from diverse scientific disciplines seeking to understand how complex systems emerge and evolve, from the universe to the mind, from microbes to humanity. The scientific disciplines include, cosmology and astrophysics, emergence of the mind, evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, the origin of solar systems, paleoanthropology and more.